While it will add a network operations center and sales team in Seattle, I doubt the company — once a high flier in the Seattle tech scene with a stock price that soared above $100 per share — will ever return to its glory days when it employed about 800 people here.

The timing of this data center expansion is interesting given that CRM Buyer reported this week that the Fisher Plaza data center — where Internap houses much of its networking equipment — suffered a major outage on July 30.

The folks at Fisher are blaming Seattle City Light, while the local power company disputes that there was a power outage on that date. An interesting read, which includes a timeline of events.

I have calls in to Internap to see where this new data center expansion will occur.

UPDATE: An Internap spokeswoman tells me that the company will expand at Fisher Plaza, taking over additional space in the West building. She did not know how much space, though the company currently leases 26,000 square feet in the East building (where the power outage occurred).

While it will add a network operations center and sales team in Seattle, I doubt the company — once a high flier in the Seattle tech scene with a stock price that soared above $100 per share — will ever return to its glory days when it employed about 800 people here.

The timing of this data center expansion is interesting given that CRM Buyer reported this week that the Fisher Plaza data center — where Internap houses much of its networking equipment — suffered a major outage on July 30.

The folks at Fisher are blaming Seattle City Light, while the local power company disputes that there was a power outage on that date. An interesting read, which includes a timeline of events.

I have calls in to Internap to see where this new data center expansion will occur.

UPDATE: An Internap spokeswoman tells me that the company will expand at Fisher Plaza, taking over additional space in the West building. She did not know how much space, though the company currently leases 26,000 square feet in the East building (where the power outage occurred).